Carcassonne
Carcassonne starts with a single terrain tile face up and 71 others shuffled face down for the players to draw from. On each turn a player draws a new terrain tile and places it adjacent to tiles that are…
Carcassonne is a card & board game developed by Sierra Entertainment, released 27 July 2007 on Xbox 360.
What Carcassonne is
Carcassonne is a card & board game game developed by Sierra Entertainment and released in 2007. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Carcassonne starts with a single terrain tile face up and 71 others shuffled face down for the players to draw from. On each turn a player draws a new terrain tile and places it adjacent to tiles that are already face up. The new tile must be placed in a way that extends features on the tiles it abuts: roads must connect to roads, fields to fields, and cities to cities. A part of a game board after several turns.After placing each new tile, the placing player may opt to station a piece on a feature of that newly-placed tile. The placing player may not use a follower to claim any features of the tile that extend or connect features already claimed by another player. However, it is possible…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It supports multiplayer for up to 5 players online. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Carcassonne holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 52% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Carcassonne launched on 27 July 2007, within three weeks of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword and FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage.
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